Tag Archives: Google

Reading that Google was adding More Protection from Unwanted Software to their search results was a pleasant surprise. These deceptive ads for third-party downloads that include additional Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) along with…read more

Here at Webroot, we are constantly on the lookout for malevolent Android apps. In most cases, you do something malicious with your app and you get marked accordingly, but it’s not always that…read more

It can be easily argued, that CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), is the modern day’s ‘guardian of the Web’, in the context of preventing the mass,…read more

With social media, now an inseparable part of the marketing expenditures for every modern organization, cybercriminals quickly adapted to the ongoing buzz, and over the last couple of years, have been persistently supplying…read more

Pharmaceutical scammers are currently mass mailing tens of thousands of fake emails, impersonating Google’s GMail in an attempt to trick its users into clicking on the links found in the spamvertised emails. Once…read more

Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating Google’s YouTube team, in an attempt to trick end and corporate users into executing the malicious attachment found in the email. Upon execution, the samples…read more

Who needs automated bots solving CAPTCHAs, when you have teams of low-waged humans recognizing them for pennies? In an underground cybercrime ecosystem dominated by managed services and countless outsourcing opportunities, it’s fairly logical…read more

by Dancho Danchev Google Inc. recently announced a new security feature in its Chrome browser. The feature will alert Chrome users every time they’re about to download a potentially malicious executable file. More…read more